CARICACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caricaceae mean? 

• CARICACEAE (noun)
  The noun CARICACEAE has 1 sense:

1. trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves

  Familiarity information: CARICACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARICACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Caricaceae; family Caricaceae; papaya family

Hypernyms ("Caricaceae" is a kind of...):

dilleniid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)

Meronyms (members of "Caricaceae"):

Carica; genus Carica (type genus of the Caricaceae; tropical American trees: papayas)

Holonyms ("Caricaceae" is a member of...):

Hypericales; order Hypericales; order Parietales; Parietales (a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae)